Detroit has always been one of the wildest cities in the country. But now
with new hot rappers popping off in the area, fans are learning about the
war going on in the city between Cash Gang and Band Gang.
Let’s take a closer look at one of the craziest beefs going down in the D.
Band Gang is a crew of rappers who grew up together on the blocks of Strathmoor
and Mark Twain on the West Side of Detroit. They're not a huge group, but they’re known for
being scammers and putting in work in the streets. There are 6 members of the Band Gang in total,
Band Gang Lonnie, Masoe, Javar, Biggs, Paid Will, and Jizzle P. They’re known for
tracks like Band Gang or No Gang and First 48. Band Gang is also affiliated with another group
in Detroit called Shred Gang because they grew up in the same area and both have the same opps.
But they are two separate groups who happen to rock with each other and often collab on music.
They both beef with Cash Gang, who is also known as FWC, a crew that has beef with
basically the entire city, including 700, 9000, Glock Boys, and of course Band Gang.
The most well-known member of Cash Gang is FWC Big Key, who has earned himself the nickname Big Opp,
for being one of the most hated dudes in the city.
Other members of Cash Gang include Cash Gang Lil Head, FWC Lick, Moor, Mike, and Sticks.
Although the two crews were never cool, they weren’t always at war.
But, as both groups grew a name for themselves in the streets and in the industry, a tension built
that would lead to an all-out war. The incident that pushed the beef between these two rival crews
past the point of no return, was the killing of another well-known Detroit rapper named Dex Osama.
Dex was one of the most feared savages in Detroit at the time he was killed.
He was not part of either Cash Gang or Band Gang but was affiliated with another group called Choppa Boyz.
He was one of the hottest up-and-coming rappers from Detroit in the early 2010’s.
His career really started to take off around 2013 and earned him a deal with
Meek Mill’s Dreamchasers label. Many thought he would be the next rapper
from the D to blow up on a mainstream level and put the city back on the map.
But, Dex wasn’t known just for his music.
He was also famous in Detroit for the work he put in on the streets.
And when your name gets that big, you’re bound to make a few enemies along the way.
Dex ended up getting into it with Band Gang, after dissing one of their fallen brothers,
Bang Gang DaDa aka 2Dotts, who was killed in an alley back in 2015. Dada got into a fight with a
man named Denzel Talbert, who ended up gunning him down. A rapper from Shredgang named ShredGang Mone
broke down what happened to DaDa in an interview with DJ Smallz Eyes. How did he pass away?
He got killed, he got shot.
He says that they were chillin' on the block and one of their homies pulled up and asked if anyone
wanted to go downtown. Mone says that he had a bad feeling about it, but they all went anyway
Cause I- I felt that I'm like no we ain't going but we end up still going so
That's the only regret I really got besides that I'm
lit with the punches
They ended up crossing paths with Denzel Talbert and his crew and got into a fight.
It’s not clear what the fight was over, but the word on the streets is that Dada tried to snatch Talbert’s
Cartier Buffs, so Talbert ran him down and killed him. Others say it was the other way around,
but either way, two Band Gang members ended up getting shot, including Dada who was killed.
Dada was one of the founding members of Band Gang and a beloved member of the group.
They mention Dada in many of their songs, like DaDa’s Winning by BandGang Paid Will.
Dex Osama had already been beefing with Band Gang and Shred Gang
and it’s rumored that they had been in a shootout where his AK was shot out of his hand.
After DaDa was killed, Dex started using his death as a way to seek revenge on his opps,
by dissing their dead homie. Dex would drop a track called Jackboy **** featuring Rocaine
where he spits the bar “Ride around town one choppa 2 glocks hit him in his head call him two dots”.
The disrespect of DaDa didn’t sit right with Bang Gang and it quickly escalated the beef between them.
Band Gang and Shred gang would start dissing Dex in their own music and on social media.
Then on September 7th, 2015, Dex Osama was shot and killed
outside the Crazy Horse Strip Club in Detroit.
Two people have been shot one of them fatally outside the crazy horse strip club
we are told that this started as an argument over a woman
Dex’s girl was a dancer there and he had gone to see her. He got into an argument with some other dudes
who were trying to dance with her, and the situation escalated into gunfire.
Dex would be shot and stumble to a gas station to call for help.
But, the ambulance didn’t arrive in time and he would later die in the hospital.
The shooting was caught on surveillance and the video shows Dex firing a shot off into
the air before the fight broke out. The two men who were arrested for killing Dex Osama,
Otis Davis, and Dietrick Odums were allegedly affiliated with Cash Gang and Shred Gang.
Although Dex had his own crew, Choppa Boys, he was cool with FWC Big Key
from Cash Gang. The murder of Dex Osama was what started the war that still continues to this day.
It made it worse after members of Band Gang continued to diss Dex on
tracks after he was murdered. So, Big Key felt like he had to defend his dead homie.
The two gangs started going at it both on social media and in the music. But in 2019, Key went
through some legal problems after he was found guilty of two counts of forgery and possession
of criminal tools. He ended up avoiding jail time and got sentenced to four years of probation.
But, before he could get back into the war, he would end up catching another charge later that
same year for felony fraud. Somehow, he escaped jail time again and posted bond the next day.
But just as Cash Gang was celebrating their leader being back home on the streets,
Band Gang would be mourning the loss of another one of their most respected members, Jizzle P.
Aaron Mays better known as Jizzle P was shot and killed
last night while sitting in a car on Detroit's Westside
On September 23rd, 2020, Jizzle P would be brutally murdered,
right in front of his own mom. Jizzle P and another dude were sitting in a Chrysler 300
on Fielding Street when a shooter sprayed the car with bullets. The car was parked in
the driveway of Jizzle P’s mom’s house and she witnessed the whole thing. But she says that
the killer let off so many shots, that the sparks blinded her from seeing who did it.
25 year old Aaron Mays was sitting in a car the two of them cracking jokes when someone ran up
firing so many shots at Mays his mother says she couldn't see the suspect's face there was so much
muzzle flash from the gun. She would go on the news to mourn the death of her son
and Band Gang would vow to seek revenge on whoever took their homie from them.
But, Cash Gang didn’t have much respect for the death of one of their opps,
and pretty soon after the news broke, they would be on social media dissing
the dead rapper. Big Key was the first to start the wild disrespect,
laughing at Jizzle P’s death on insta live saying that he was getting an AR to smoke more opps.
*Laughing*
What you talking about?
Yeah ***** bro ****
Man I'm finna go pick up my mother***** AR I done got too many death threats
The rest of Cash Gang would follow his lead
and clown the rapper on social media and take credit for the murder.
It must have been a planned hit against Band Gang,
because Javar later revealed that he got shot on the same day at the same time as Jizzle P
in a different location but survived. You know that **** was really crazy because
we got shot on the same day like at the same time
So, he was in the hospital recovering when he got the news that his homie had been killed.
If that wasn’t bad enough, while they were still recovering from the loss of Jizzle P,
the group would lose another member, Band Gang Paid Will. In late 2020,
Police responded to several shots being fired in the area of Grandmont and West Chicago. They
would enter one of the homes in the area and find Band Gang Paid Will dead from a headshot after
what appeared to be some kind of shootout. His death came just a few months after Jizzle P was murdered,
which meant back-to-back losses for Band Gang. Although not widely reported by official media outlets,
members of the group would take to Twitter and IG to report the loss of their homie.
They also lost a lesser-known member named Band Gang Lennie Skinny around that same time because
both Javar and Lonnie shouted him out in RIP tweets. So, the group was losing members left and right,
all within a few months. If that wasn’t bad enough, their opps would continue
to taunt them on social media, by clowning their dead homies any chance they could get.
I think it said Cash Gang got six bodies this week oh my god oh my god
bro chill out bro y'all ***** around this ***** trippin
But all the violence would attract the attention of police and in early March, 2021,
Big Key would have his house raided by the Feds. The FBI obtained a warrant to raid his apartment
from a judge in Detroit, under the suspicion that he had guns and ammo stored there –
which would be a violation of his parole. Big Key and his girl were at home when the Feds showed up,
and the search uncovered a Taurus G3 9mm pistol and a necklace that said Big Key.
The Feds were able to use the necklace to connect the rapper to his IG account, where he could be seen rocking
the chain and sharing all kinds of incriminating evidence of the various crimes he was involved in.
It seems like this time Key was finally caught. Although they gave him bail,
which he quickly posted and returned to dissing opps and continuing his many beefs.
Key would get into it with Band Gang Javar on IG and Cash Gang Lick would end up dropping
a diss track called Wet Jumper, where he dissed all the dead members of Band Gang.
The beef would get even more serious after Band Gang would almost lose another one of
its founding members Band Gang Lonnie, who was shot in the head but survived.
He would post pics on social media of himself in the hospital flexing tons of cash,
showing the opps that he wasn’t scared of their assasination attempt.
This would lead to even more beef online after Cash Gang Lick and Lil Head
would take the bait and start dissing Lonnie under his post.
This brought up some old photos that revealed Lick was once a part of Band Gang but switched sides
and started beefing with his former friends. If this is true, it would be a bad look for Cash Gang,
but it’s possible that the photo is just a troll and could be photoshopped.
Either way, it doesn’t seem like the beef between these two crews will be dying down any time soon.
Band Gang has lost most of its founding members and Big Key will likely have to face charges for
getting caught with a weapon while on probation. It seems like this is just another tragic story
of two rap crews who won’t stop beefing until everyone is either dead or in jail.
But once blood has been shed and dead homies have been disrespected,
it’s only a matter of time before someone gets revenge.
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